1. 1無毛的、沒毛的(講人頭通常說禿頭 bald;hairless 較廣,人或動物沒毛都能用)

    Hairless means with no hair. You can say it of a patch of skin, a whole body, an animal, or a kind of cat or dog that is born that way. For a person’s head, English often prefers bald — especially when the hair has gone with age. Hairless is the wider word: a hairless arm, a hairless , a hairless cat. Though actually, speakers sometimes use it with a little extra feeling: scientific and calm (“a hairless mammal”), or slightly uncomfortable if you point at a person that way, because it can sound like you are staring at their body. It is a normal adjective, not rude by itself, but bald is the kinder everyday word for a man’s head. There is also hairless as a joke about a very smooth look after shaving. The opposite idea is hairy. It does not mean “short hair”; short hair is still hair.

組成hair + -less(沒有、不含)。和 hair loss 是同一組零件、兩種組法;德語 haarlos 是親戚,不是英語詞。

同家族的字

  • hair lossthe same two pieces, hair and “gone,” written as two words instead of one

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

hairlessadj/ˈhɛələs/

  • 1

    Destitute of hair.

  • 2

    Bald.

    • There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains.

hairlessnoun/ˈhɛələs/

  • 1

    An animal of a hairless breed.

    • Boston terriers and bulldogs, poodles and Pomeranians; there was even a pair of Mexican hairlesses, who looked like they'd had thirty rounds of chemotherapy.

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